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16 October 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS: Latin America and International Law (8-9 Feb 2018, University of Hamburg/University of the Andes); DEADLINE 8 DEC 2017

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From February 8 to 9, 2018, the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (University of Hamburg) in conjunction with Professor José Manuel Barreto Soler (Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Externado) organizes a conference on the history of international law in Latin American.Topic:The conference title is roughly borrowed from Alejandro Álvarez' very influential (but also controversially discussed) article "Latin America and Inernational Law" from 1909. Insprired by his work, we aim at exploring the complex relationship between Latin America and international law in the past centuries.In the last few years, questions concerning Latin America's historic relationship to international law have moved to the focus of academic attention. Several outstanding treatises have been published on and conferences have dealt with this topic. But its study is still a comparably recent academic field (especially in Europe). The conference shall contribute to its further sharpening and to the creation of new perspectives on the study of the history of international law in Latin America.Call for Papers:We would like to invite everybody interested in the study of the history of international law in Latin America (doctoral students, early scholars, professors, practitioners, etc.) to participate in our call and to submit proposals for contributions on any of the listed subtopics (see below).Please send your application in one single PDF file including· your proposal of around 300 - 500 words and· a brief CV (indicating also your institutional affiliation)until December 3, 2017, to matthias.packeiser@uni-hamburg.deThe selection of speakers will be based on the quality of their abstracts and the abstract's suitability to the overall topic of the conference. Selected candidates will be informed by December 8, 2017.List of Subtopics: International Law in the Americas before Independence International Law and the Independence in the Americas International Law, United States' Imperialism and Latin America The Particularity of Latin American International Law International Law, Globalization, and Latin America New Latin American Approaches to International Law? Germany and the History of International Law in the AmericasFurther information and a more detailed call for papers are available here: uhh.de/rw-latin-america”